Instead of hiring a Turnaround Artist or leaving your company to someone to do it for you, what if you DIY? Season 5 is "DIY Turnaround for the Business Owner" that wants to fix their own mess. Show 5.1 is an overview of the 13 shows and where you can can access to the materials.

This the last show of Season 4 - Owner as Executive and for the 2018 Growth Year.

Next year - 2019 is also focused on growth and starts with Season 5 - DIY Turnaround for Biz Owners. The purpose: you are dissatisfied with the performance of your business and want to fix it yourself with a little help from your friends (Joe Cocker in the background).

We will cover over the 13 weeks what made GrowthWorx successful - how we turned around small businesses from under performing with stagnant growth to growth that is fast and sustainable rewarding business owners with increased profits. But this is bigger than profits, it is about generational wealth and jobs.

What is an ESOP: Employee Stock Option Plan?

ESOP is a kind of employee benefit plan, similar in some ways to a profit-sharing plan;

Shares in the trust are allocated to individual employee accounts;

Over a $1m in sales, owners want to sell, minimum of 10 employees, profit greater than $200k a year, must be a Sub-chapter S or C Corporation...

When You Leave or Die – What is the Legacy

Start with Profit, Not Revenue

Expand Capacity Through Quality

Today's Topics:

Start with Profit, Not Revenue

Expand Capacity Through Quality

Today’s show and the next 3 are focused on bringing the topic of Owner as Executive to a close. Since our first show (SHOW 4.1 Chapter 1: The End Game – A Self Managing Organization), everything has been about your mindset as a business owner. Seasons 1-3 in 2018 focused on ‘What To Do’, this Season it has been ‘Who Are You’.

This our final article in the series of Growing Managers. We started with the Discipline of Management, covered Promoting Smart, and the last edition was running a Manager Nursery. We identified the difference between management and leadership, what attributes to look for when promoting, and how to develop from within instead of hiring from the outside. Now the question is - how do I measure performance?

3 Topics for today’s show:

When and How Do You Plan to Depart

Maximizing the Value of the Business

Building Operational Plans

This article (and podcast) starts a new series on Finance for Landscape Business Owners of all sizes. The series is based on feedback the staff at Green Industry Pros Magazine received from its readers in 2018. We start with a summary of the basics for looking at your business and the next 10 articles.

Now that you have built a position that plays to your strengths, create positions around you that cover your weaknesses.

Based on your assessment profile or strengths and weaknesses, build your position description first.